So tonight we took the kids to see Iron Man. I'd been wondering for years when they'd make an Ironman movie because he's one of my favorite Marvel characters. So, while I usually despise the whole opening night/waiting in line bit, I was there tonight (OK, so opening night was last night, but second is close, right?). I'll admit, I was a little ( Read more... )

So this morning, everything in my body resisted getting out of bed. The bedroom was cold (I'm a weirdo who runs the fan all night), the bed was warm and I was dead tired. I muttered to Wayne something about how I wish I could just go back to sleep. He tells me "But you have to go to work.", to which I reply. "Why? Nobody else does ( Read more... )

My son is officially taller than me. Seems like not so long ago that the newborn diapers were too loose on his little body. My baby. How do they grow so fast?

I was a vegetarian for ten years - starting when I was sixteen and stopping just before I married my husband. My husband has recently been trying to get away from factory farmed meat. Actually, I'd like to as well but I lack his conviction for the moment. One thing he is doing is refusing to eat meat at restaurants unless he knows it is organic ( ( Read more... )

So I had kind of a yuck day. Nothing major or emo but just... well, one of those days where everything goes wrong. One of the trucks is broken at work which has me having to basically find my coworkers who have trucks and ask them to drive me between the properties. The result is that I'm walking to get a truck and then driving to get dogs/cats/ ( Read more... )

As much as I really love my job, I must say my days off seem so short. I feel like it was only a few hours and now it's 6 am with me getting ready to leave in a half our for work. Not really a complaint so much as "Where did it go?". I'm still a little stressed because this is a new field for me and I'm crossing my fingers that they'll see through ( Read more... )

So I have a tale to tale regarding a bit of idiocy on my part at work. Let me preface this by explaining that the shelter I work for is care-for life. The animals are not adopted out and, once they come in, they are cared for until their bodies can't be fixed anymore. It doesn't matter what kind of animal or what it's personality is. We have feral ( Read more... )

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Now to find a way to make it more permanent.

So today I took home another plastic bag. The only thing in it was a bag of pretzels (Bad Shawnee. Baaaaad). I keep forgetting to tell the clerks before they begin the transaction. Once they've bagged it, if you tell them you don't want to the bag it just gets thrown away. I'm going to have to train myself. As it is, I have a whole canister of bags ( Read more... )

I just finished watching our TiVod Live Earth recording. I wish I could have seen the whole concert, but we only got 7 hours. I missed the Beastie Boys, among other stuff. Some bands, like Crowded House, I hadn't heard since I was a teenager. It was very educating but I wonder if the message only got out to the people who were already worried about ( Read more... )